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- A daggerboard is a retractable centreboard used by various sailing craft. While other types of centreboard may pivot to retract, a daggerboard slides in...
- the secondary purpose of being a counterweight, and centreboards and daggerboards, which are of lighter weight, do not have the secondary purpose of being...
- may refer to either a wooden or a metal pivoting retractable foil. A daggerboard is similar but slides vertically rather than pivoting. The analog in...
- centerboard or daggerboard keel, depending on the model, with flooding water ballast. The ballast is drained for road transport. MacGregor 26D Daggerboard-equipped...
- front of a bulkhead, which partitions the boat nearly in half, is the daggerboard case. Right behind it on the centerline of the hull floor are attached...
- hydrofoils only to ****ist performance.[clarification needed] Just as daggerboards and rudders are foils that enhance the control of a boat, ****isting hydrofoils...
- boats by using five essential controls: The sails The foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder and sometimes lifting foils as found on the...
- longboards. Longboards are usually longer than 3 meters, with a retractable daggerboard, and are optimized for lighter winds or course racing. Shortboards are...
- engine, transmission, propeller), or controls (helm, rudder, centreboard, daggerboards, rigging). Similarly, a jury mast is a replacement mast after a dismasting...
- to make sure the boat sails level. Centreboard/daggerboard position - lifting the centreboard/daggerboard up when sailing downwind and putting it down when...